honesty Quotes

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

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“Truth, such as is necessary to the regulation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“O, what a tangled web we weave,When first we practise to deceive!”

― Walter Scott, Marmion

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“The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

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“The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

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“I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.”

― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

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“The lady protests too much, methinks.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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